E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24857-h.htm or 24857-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/5/24857/24857-h/24857-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/5/24857/24857-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changes is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text. JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children by CHARLES H. SYLVESTER Author of English and American Literature VOLUME TEN--THE GUIDE New Edition For parents, teachers, and all who have children under their charge; for adults who wish to renew their acquaintance with the friends of their youth, or to open for the first time the world's great treasure house of literature; for youthful readers who must study the classics [Illustration: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WASHINGTON IRVING JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT] Chicago Bellows-Reeve Company Publishers Copyright, 1922 Bellows-Reeve Company CONTENTS PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 1